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Qatar: Middle East hopeful for World Cup 2022 bid

Saturday, 26 June 2010 11:59

A retired Kuwaiti footballer said Qatar's aspired win of World Cup 2022 bid is the wish of not only for Qatar, but all the people of the entire Middle East region as well.

Interviewed by KUNA, Abdelaziz Al-Anbari, an ambassador for Qatar's World Cup 2022 bid and football analyst, said all the people of the Middle East are yearning for this great international event to be held in the region for the first time.

He even spoke highly of Qatar's current preparations and arrangements for the football festival, which he said brings the world's peoples together.

"Qatar will be a wonderful and unique venue for hosting the World Cup in the future, thus inspiring millions of young people in the region to represent their countries in the event," he said.

Qatar's bid dossier could ensure that should the festival be held in Qatar, it would be really a distinguished one, he believed. The dossier contains 750 pages and seven additional volumes and includes complementary documents, together with FIFA-set criteria and requirements, involving sports facilities, infrastructure, governmental safeguards, hotels, health services and private contracts, he noted.

The documents weighing over 20 kilograms are bearing on all questions pertinent to accommodation, transportation, security, environment and infrastructure, Al-Anbari said.

Three new stadiums have been created in Qatar, receiving over 45,000 spectators each, he said, adding that should Doha win the bid, it would carry out expansions at another two stadiums.

Carbon-free cooling systems and state-of-the-art technology are used at Qatar's modern-styled stadiums in order to keep weather at 27 degrees Celsius, thus providing a comfortably congenial atmosphere for fans, he noted. Easy and comfortable means of transport are to be made available so as to make it easy for spectators to go to stadiums so smoothly, he concluded.(KUNA)

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